A New Study of Intelligence in Sri Lanka

Bekhzod Omanbeyev, Shakhnoza Tosheva and Richard Lynn

Abstract

The Standard Progressive Matrices Plus (SPM+) was administered in Sri Lanka in 2017 to a sample of 302 school students aged 11 to 16 years. The mean score of the test was 29.2 and is equivalent to a British-scaled IQ of 83. The boys scored significantly higher than the girls.